For a party starting out, the so-called 'Your Party' seems to be suffering its fair share of birthing pains...

Given the urgency of supporting a strong voice on the Left, and the position staked out by Zac Polanski for the Green Party of England & Wales, and the position of the Scottish Greens, its yet more evidence that those on the left of politics might be better hitching their wagon to the Green Parties, than Your Party if they want to get to it quickly!

#politics

theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

MP Adnan Hussain quits Your Party over ‘persistent infighting’

Blackburn MP criticises ‘struggle for power’ amid tensions between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana

^{Peter Walker (The Guardian)}

The very afraid Grocer-in-Chief

Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices
#politics #tariffs #TACO
apnews.com/article/trump-tarif…

"#Epstein’s human trafficking organization depended entirely on the wealth management industry (WMI). It was how he obtained the capital to build it, and it was how he hid his activities from the authorities. And none of this was an abuse of the industry; it is precisely how the WMI is designed to work. Nor is it an abuse of the law, because both American and international law has been carefully designed to accomodate the WMI."

#USPol #Politics #Wealth #Capitalism

jacobin.com/2025/11/epstein-tr…

Capitalism Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes

The strategies Jeffrey Epstein used to hide the money funding his sex trafficking organization were perfectly legal. In fact, they are the same legal strategies that most of the top 0.1% uses to avoid taxes and other regulations.

^jacobin.com

MARK MY WORDS....

"After I had conversations with insiders, the consensus is that Trump will go to war against Venezuela if he can't tamp down the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein inquiry by the MAGA base.

Keep looking for Trump posts regarding Venezuela...

Trump WILL resort to using bombs to change the national dialog - keep your eyes on the SOUTH!"
- Aure

#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Venezuela

Trump's Last Resort Against Epstein - A MILITARY DIVERSION!

The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, led by the world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), entered the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility (USSOUTHCOM AOR), Nov. 11

The maritime forces’ arrival comes after Secretary of War Hegseth directed the Carrier Strike Group to support Trump's directive to dismantle drug cartels in Venezuela
#AureFreePress #Politics #uspolitics

navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Sto…

Saying goodbye to comet A6 Lemmon. It's getting very low, and clouds are increasing in southern New Mexico.

It was a remarkable run of many clear nights.

This is a single exposure on a fixed tripod.

There's a blurred silhouette of a power line, and satellite trails in this image. They belong in the frame because this is the world we have created. It's getting increasingly difficult to escape to pristine nature.

Perhaps the phrase 'pristine nature' is now an oxymoron?

When is the first No Kings General Strike?

We all need to help with community building and boosting civic engagement. These activities have atrophied for decades, and it shows.

#NewMexico #Comet #Photography #Astrophotography #Technology #Astronomy #Science #Nature #Politics #USpol #Fascism #MAGA #ClimateChange #Trump #Musk #Anthropocene

NEW: “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office

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A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidates from the pulpit, an expert said.

propublica.org/article/fort-wo…

#government #religion #texas #IRS #News #Politics

“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office

^{cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

I’m disgusted with the Democrats in the Senate. Abject capitulation for a promise that means nothing. Way to take your eye off the ball and turn the momentum that was building this last week against you and us.

Your GOP colleagues are laughing their asses off at your cowardice and stupidity. #politics

hahahahaha!

#politics #Kansas #AnnCoulter

CNN: National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters

11/8/25

cnn.com/2025/11/08/health/211-…

#snap #hunger #disasters #politics

Why do too many (Anglophone) centrist-leftish parties feel so hollow?

Geoff Mulgan thinks it’s
- tactics over strategy
- incumbency bias
- business capture
- a loss of connection to the Arts and culture
- a low energy equilibrium when communicating with voters and activists

Whatever you think of his ideas, you can’t accuse Zohran Mamdani of any of this.

geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hol…

#Politics #FarRight #UKPol #USPol #Labour #EUpol #ZohranMamdani

Hollowed out: can the centre hold?

Can the centre hold and resist the far right?

^{Geoff Mulgan (Geoff’s Substack)}

No, the White House has no plan for health care. abcnews.go.com/Politics/bessen…

#politics #democrats #USPol

Bessent says no formal White House health care proposal as shutdown drags on

He hedged when asked about the president's push to end the filibuster.

^{Nicholas Kerr (ABC News)}

I mean...it *sounds* like a good idea. I for one could really use a check from the government right now. But how come we've never heard anything about this "plan" before? (???)

#USpolitics #policy #healthcare #healthcarereform #governmentshutdown #shutdown #news #politics

axios.com/2025/11/08/trump-aff…

Overtaxed and unpaid air traffic controllers are resigning “every day” due to stress from the government shutdown.

“Controllers are resigning every day now because of the prolonged nature of the shutdown,” Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, told CNN.

“We hadn’t seen that before. And we’re also 400 controllers short—shorter than we were in the 2019 shutdown.”

Air traffic controllers are federal workers, which means they are part of the approximately 730,000 federal employees working without pay since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.

Air Traffic Controllers Start Resigning as Shutdown Bites

Unpaid air traffic controllers are quitting their jobs altogether as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history continues.

^{Adam Downer (The Daily Beast)}

Jesus HOPPING christ.

If you're a constituent, flood Schumer's inbox. Flood all their inboxes. Better yet, call them. Holy fuck.

Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave?

How the Senate Democratic leader and his Gang of Eight keep trying to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.

prospect.org/2025/11/08/why-do…

Here’s what occurred. It has been widely assumed that the group of eight mostly centrist Senate Democrats, who have been looking to broker a hollow deal on Republican terms, were free-lancing. In fact, they were acting with the express approval of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and were reporting to him daily.

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #Schumer #ChuckSchumer #FuckChuck #fascism #FuckingIdiots

Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave?

Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, in exchange for vague assurances of a vote on Affor…

^{Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)}

They don't want the government opening back up. Certainly not this year. Maybe not at all.

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism #abortion #AbortionRights #AbortionIsHealthcare

pendant ce temps-là - au Venezuela

Audrey Hepburn, Green Mansions, Mel Ferrer, 1959
#Venezuela #movie #photography #forest #politics

Zohran Mamdani - et l'espoir revient à gauche

Victory by Kazutoshi Ono. Comedy Pets
#ZohranMamdani #USA #cats #politics #photography

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

(5/5)

...👉 for corrupt or selfish purposes.👈

👉 #Oligarchies in which members of the ruling group are wealthy or exercise their power through their wealth are known as #plutocracies..."👈

britannica.com/topic/oligarchy

//

Oligarchy | Definition & Facts

Oligarchy, government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes.

^{The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (Encyclopedia Britannica)}

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

(4/n)

...that Aristotle called #polity). Rule by one or the few in the...

rulers’ own interest is tyranny or oligarchy (or timocracy), respectively, and anarchic mob rule is democracy, as #Aristotle used that term..."

britannica.com/topic/aristocra…

"#oligarchy, government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group...

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Aristocracy | Definition, Examples, & Facts

Aristocracy, government by a relatively small privileged class or by a minority consisting of those presumed to be best qualified to rule.

^{The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (Encyclopedia Britannica)}

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

(3/n)

...to be best qualified to rule.

As conceived by the #Greek philosopher #Aristotle (384–322 bce), aristocracy means the rule of the few—the morally and intellectually superior—governing in the interest of all.
Such a form of government differs from the rule of one in the interest of all (#monarchy) and the rule of the many in the interest of all (a form of government...

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

(2/n)

THIS would be "the best" championing the cause of "the people".
They ALL do it in their own self-interest.

No, it is "new money (#PeterThiel et al) vs. "old money, thus still a #Plutocracy:

Via #Britannica.com:

"aristocracy, government by a relatively small privileged class or by a minority consisting of those presumed...

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @violetmadder @benfell @paninid @gilduran

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

(1/n)

Calling the noveau-rich #Rockbridge group of #oligarchs "#aristocrats" is just euphemism, but does not change much for the american people.

I have not heard any of the #Rockbridge members calling for #UniversalHealthcare for all citizens, as #AOC and #BernieSanders have been doing for a long time...

thenerdreich.com/jd-vance-tech…

@violetmadder @benfell @paninid @gilduran

Rockbridge, JD Vance tech donor group, seeks aristocracy

Tomorrow morning, we’ll release the latest episode of the Nerd Reich podcast—an episode focused on how the venture capital model is warping US politics. Today, I wanted to share a gift link to this must-read Washington Post story.

^{Gil Duran (The Nerd Reich)}

Really curious about the thoughts on this one. #politics should help, and I'm curious if @lisamelton could boost for visibility?

infosec.exchange/@Sempf/115497…

New from Francesca D'Annunzio: The #Texas Department of Public Safety and #ICE recently signed a pair of agreements that will authorize some state police within DPS’s Criminal Investigations and Highway Patrol divisions to effectively operate as ICE agents, on a statewide basis. texasobserver.org/texas-dps-28…

#immigration #Trump #fascism #genocide #police #law #politics #USpol #news

Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump

The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.

^{Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)}

Through independent analysis it is suggested that the Supreme Court of the #USA ( #SCOTUS ) is biased towards the trump administration as opposed to other U.S. courts

#Politics #News #Business #BusinessNews #PoliticsNews #ruleOfLaw

youtube.com/shorts/L5piDswwm9g…

One way of understanding middle class political disquiet in the UK is to look at international comparison of the earnings of the top 10% of workers (which includes the 'upper middle class' & is what many budding middle class workers aspire to in their careers).

While the top 1% are still doing well in international terms, the relative fall in top 10% incomes may explain some of the middle class anger that seems to lie behind our current political travails?

#workers #MiddleClass #politics

Some #schadenfreude for you 🤭

#elections #politics #USA #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #mamdani #cuomo

In the mist of shite political news from around the world, here's a good news story, the Danish Foreign Minister give the Egyptian Foreign Minister a Lego set of the Pyramids as a gift, just look at his face ;)

#Politics #Denmark #Egypt #Lego #Joy #GoodNews

egyptianstreets.com/2025/11/03…

marylandmatters.org/2025/11/04…

"The emergency payments come after the #USDA abruptly announced last month that it would not be able to use #SNAP conti ngency funds to make November benefit payments during a government shutdown — even though it had made payments during the #shutdown in Octobe r and had a reported $4.65 billion left in the contingency fund."

The administration unambiguously had authority to spend down the rest of the contingency fund and chose not to.

#maryland #wesMoore #politics

Maryland commits $62 million to fund share of November SNAP benefits USDA won't pay for - Maryland Matters

Maryland will put up $62 million to cover funding for the SNAP food assistance program for November, after the federal government announced Monday that it would only cover about half of the federal program for the month of November.

^{Danielle J. Brown (Maryland Matters)}

Evangelical fundamentalists have always, always, ALWAYS loved hurting children. It's a fucking _sport_ for them. It's how they get their _jollies_.

Whether it's legal fights to protect bullying or wistful reminiscences of torturing queer kids and wishing they could do it again or defending child molesters in their ranks and pedophiles of power by keeping the Epstein files locked up or by blaming children for the accidents of their own birth - particularly when they can get anti-Black racism involved, like here - they just _love_ it.

And they always, always have.

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism #filth #fuckMAGA #ChristoFascists #ChristoFascism #evil

On the crux of greatness

Tomorrow:

#Mamdani

Brought to you by

PEOPLE WHO FUCKING #VOTE

vote, you lazy motherfuckers

your cynicism is nothing but acceptance

#USA #Politics #NYC #NewYorkCity #NewYork

This is what happens when you push universities into a business model that is built on the dependence on foreign students' fees; the university becomes sensitive to lobbying & actions by Govt's from states that 'provide' many of those students.

In this case China has put pressure on Sheffield Hallam U to halt the research of an academic looking at exploitation in Chinese supply chains.

You'll not be surprised how *that* played out...

#universities #politics #China

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq50j5…

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show

Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

^{Damian Grammaticas (BBC News)}

Positive article about the Dutch election, in which the far right went backwards:

#Netherlands #politics smh.com.au/world/europe/how-an…

How an always-smiling train manager just stopped the hard right in its tracks

His high-stakes win has set up the Netherlands for a wedding that will make headlines. And Rob Jetten could have Anthony Albanese to thank.

^{David Crowe (The Sydney Morning Herald)}